By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

"For generations, male flies with the largest facets have been favored in mating and their genes are passed on" said Luc Bussière, evolutionary biologist at the University of Gothenburg.

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a ...

To stop a flesh-eating parasite from crossing the border, the U.S. is reviving an unusual Cold War-era tactic involving ...

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they'll kill off a ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The US government is planning to carry out a shocking plan in which they will take millions of sterile New World screwworm ...

Should the flies reach the states, the larvae could infest livestock, pets, wildlife and, possibly, even people.

The USDA expects a new screwworm fly factory to be up and running in southern Mexico by July 2026. It plans to open a fly ...

But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study by researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and Stockholm suggests that this is an ongoing evolution ...

The U.S. government plans to release billions of sterilized flies over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating pest ...

Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey with rivals. This new understanding of how male flies compete for female partners could shed ...